Weird..We had near record car sales after hurricanes and a month later inventories plunge..Business has loaded up for the massive sales last four days and holidays as product doesn’t fall out of sky and .......

Record car sales after hurricanes is only relative in hurricane ravaged areas of the country, which are actually in very isolated pockets. The car companies use the disaster headlines to spin the record sales to try to promote the growth of the industry. But the bottom line impact is minimal when you offset the "positive" hurricane impact in a relative fraction of the country versus the lackluster car sales throughout the vast majority of non-hurricane damaged country. Much like real estate, there is almost always a "hot market" somewhere, even in the midst of a overall market sell-off. So the aggregate numbers showing auto sales plunge sounds correct.

All the mindless yabbering about self-driving cars is not going to encourage folks to go out and buy something that they think might become obsolete in a few years.

Of course it helps to actually HAVE the technology ready to go instead of just talking about it.

Be funny as shit if the existing car industry takes a fatal hit after several years of low sales because everyone is waiting for the self-driving models. And then it turns out that those models don't actually exist yet, and none of the bugs have been worked out...Sure, it could revive the car industry to suddenly have to make regular cars again, but I'm thinking that market will probably have already been captured by one of the other manufacturers.